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0000-0001-7318-5892Update December 5, 2016: PLOS Genetics now has in place a new initiative to use preprint servers for identifying and soliciting manuscripts. Please read the Editorial for more information. For some time now PLOS has discussed

0000-0001-7318-5892In this massively data rich world, the equilibrium between information and knowledge has increasingly shifted from knowledge toward information. Advanced text and data mining (TDM) is not yet ubiquitous and even if it were, not

0000-0001-7318-5892As part of ongoing efforts to improve discovery, reuse and impact of PLOS content, articles published by PLOS and available in PDF can be easily uploaded, discovered, shared and recombined on the new online service

0000-0001-7318-5892Reproduced here from the original June 11, 2014 PLOS Newsroom post The visibility of a research article extends beyond the journal in which it appears, and today includes press coverage, discussion forums, social networks, blog posts, post-publication

The growth of Open Access has increased the pool of digital information that is available for Text Mining. This relatively new interdisciplinary field emerged in the 1980s and combines techniques from linguistics, computer science and

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) seeks submissions in the broad field of text-mining research for a collection to be launched across all of its journals in 2013. All submissions submitted before October 30th, 2012

Just eight days after announcing our call for App ideas, we received over 70 top-rate suggestions for scientific and medical apps from our community. Many addressed issues already important to PLoS—post-publication peer review and contextualizing